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  • Teaching at Wende Correctional Facility
    8/13/26
    Professors from UB are helping incarcerated individuals discover something often denied to them — an education that empowers, enlightens and changes lives. Among the educators leading this initiative is Susan Weeber, clinical assistant professor.
  • Buffalo Film Seminars to feature rare superhero film this fall
    8/18/26
    Fall lineup features only the third superhero movie in series history, and it stars a UB alumnus.
  • Poetics Program celebrates Creeley with two-day symposium
    5/18/26
    The two-day event celebrates the centenary of the former UB faculty member who was one of the most revered poets of the 20th century.
  • Two UB alumni win 2026 Pulitzers
    5/8/26
    Sara DiNatale shares the explanatory reporting award and Juliana Spahr is this year’s winner for poetry.
  • Congratulations Isaac Kolding and Sharmeen Mehri
    3/30/26
    Both have been selected as award winners for this year's Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants!
  • Christina Williamson
    1/30/26
    UB alumnus (Class of 1993) debut novel, FIVE MILLION MOMENTS, will be published in February 2026.  Congratulations, Christine (Goldie) Williamson!
  • Richard Kopley
    2/4/26
    Edgar Allen Poet: A Life, a new book by #UBuffalo alumnus (English PhD 1982) and Penn State DuBois Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Kopley, was nominated for an Edgar Award in the Biographical/Critical category by the Mystery Writers of America. Congratulations! Professor Kopley began his studies of Poe with Leslie Fiedler at the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Christine Varnado
    1/27/26
    Congratulations to #UBuffalo English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at UB Professor Christine Varnado! An essay collection she co-edited with Lauren Shohet (Villanova University), : , , , has just been published. An eclectic group of essays on early modern poetry, theatre, material culture, theology, humor, among other things, it includes an introduction co-written by the two editors titled “What’s Queer About (Early Modern) Death?”
  • Congratulations Jay Barber
    10/21/25
    Congratulations to Jay Barber, whose "Weaving Science into Creative Writing: Integrating Interdisciplinarity into Young Adult Learning" has been published in !